Intro to Music: Chapter 9
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- Concerto
- a large composition for orchestra and solo instrument
- Concerto Grosso
- the main early Baroque type of concerto, for a group of solo instruments and a small orchestra
- Movement
- a self-contained section of music that is part of a larger work
- Ritornello Form
- the orchestral material at the beginning of a concerto grosso's movement which always returns later in the piece
- Variation Form
- a form in which a single melodic unit is repeated with harmonic, rhythmic, dynamic, or timbral changes
- basso ostinato
- persistant or obstinant bass
- Ground Bass
- the repeating bass figure
- Cadenza
- a feature of concertos in all eras that is an improvised solo passage within a larger piece
- Fugue
- a polyphonic composition for a fixed number of instrumental lines or voices- usually 3 or 4 built on a single principle theme
- Subject
- the theme of a fugue
- Expostion
- the beginning of a fugue in which all the voices present the subject in an orderly standardized way
- Episode
- in a Fugue, a passage that does not contain any complete appearance of the fugue subject
- counter subject
- the new material when it sticks with the subject accompanying it one way or another througout the fugue
- stretto
- one subject entry overlaps another entry in time
- Inversion
- all intervals in the subject are reversed- steps up become steps down and so on
- gigue
- a dance in compound meter that may have been derived from the Irish jig
- Binary Form
- a musical form having 2 different sections; A and B
- Trio
- the secon or B section of a shorter dance (minuets)
- Frenche overture
- a special preparatory number at the beginning of a suite before the first dance
- Overture
- a general term for any substantial piece of music introducing a play, opera, or ballet